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Activist group GetEQUAL confronted National Organization for Marriage chair Maggie Gallagher before today's "Defending Marriage hearing to present her with the "First Annual Anita Bryant Award for Unbridled and Unparalleled Bigotry."

Watch (and see a copy of the certificate they presented), AFTER THE JUMP…

Lawyers for supporters of the voter-approved ban also asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday to prohibit former Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker from playing the recordings for anyone else.

The motion came in response to a talk Walker gave in February at the University of Arizona and rebroadcast on C-Span.

During his presentation, the judge showed a clip from the trial.

The lawyers say that violated a U.S. Supreme Court order and assurances from Walker.

Last night, Lawrence O'Donnell posted a powerful piece on NOM defector Louis Marinelli in his "rewrite" segment highlighting Marinelli's change of heart over the course of his summer bus tour with the anti-gay marriage organization.

Louis Marinelli, the National Organization for Marriage's 'Summer for Marriage' tour bus operator and online coordinator who resigned from the organization last week, published a post to his blog today discussing NOM's fundraising base and the org's cluelessness about social media.

This is where I came into the picture over the past six months or so. It was clear that NOM needed a plan to activate what supporters they had, to mobilize them to respond to events to create a grassroots-like illusion of support.

Of course, illusion is my word but is an accurate usage of the word considering the objective. NOM in no way ever ordered me to create an illusion.

I am sharing this with you because I want you to realize that NOM is a small group of devoutly religious Catholics supported by a couple of undisclosed sources. NOM is essentially made up of Brian Brown, its President, Maggie Gallagher, the CEO, a handful of other Board members (who are scattered across the country involved in other matters), a couple of advisors to Mr. Brown and a small and largely incompetent office staff.

That is all that is standing between you and the freedom to marry. There is no grassroots opposition. While they have proven to be quite successful over the past couple years, I think it’s time to put NOM’s size into perspective. Are you going to let a handful of fringe Catholics (with whom many Catholics disagree on marriage) stand between you and the freedom to marry?